it's been exciting if you're a cloud company. Take San Mateo's Netsuite, whose market share grew 40 percent last year and revenue of $123 million in the first quarter beat analyst estimates with a 34 percent year-over-year increase. Netsuite CEO Zach Nelson about what’s been driving growth, and how he sees the cloud disruption playing out for the software space as a whole.

Passwords were never intended to be the monster they've become. We can keep changing them all we want (and given that these breaches keep happening, we probably will), but until a viable alternative is found, no login will ever truly be secure.

Tesla Motors Inc.'s planned Gigafactory battery plant is not just the biggest project that founder Elon Musk has ever attempted. It's also not just the largest manufacturing project planned in the U.S. right now. It's a historically massive undertaking that could change the economics of the battery industry overnight — something that becomes clear when you look at the gobsmacking mass of raw materials the facility must consume to reach Tesla's ambitious production goals.

Passwords were never intended to be the monster they've become. We can keep changing them all we want (and given that these breaches keep happening, we probably will), but until a viable alternative is found, no login will ever truly be secure.